Rob’s Digital Life

Signed up for Truphone as I mentioned just made first call to a landline with it and very pleased.
I’ve been a bit slow to the Truphone party as I’ve used MS phone for the last few years, but I’m here now.
The only anoyning point is that when ever I open the email app a box [...]

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I got my post about Orange not branding their Nokia’s totally wrong. On the service the look of the phone can be changed by swapping to another Theme. However under the covers it’s a different story.
I tried to get GPS working whilst in the park and nothing. So it looks as if GPS has been [...]

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I’ve always liked my mobiles to have a small flashing let that let’s you know that all is well and the device is on. The n73 had a little blue light that came on after a while and gave you that reassuring blink that all was OK.
The N95 has dropped the little light which is [...]

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When I purchased the Nokia N70 from orange I was horrified to find the branding had crippled the phone. Well it looks as if Orange have learnt there lesson and now only install an Orange Theme.
So if you’re thinking of getting an N95 and some of the later N73’s then you should fine just an [...]

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I just fired up google reader mobile and nearly every other posts was about the iPhone which isn’t even on sale yet!
There’s way too much hype about this device.
I think I’ll take a few days away from the web until the hysteria has gone.

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Since last June I’ve now been though four new phones and one old one.
(1) Bought N70 used it for one month didn’t like it.
Dragged SPV C600 back out of the cupboard.
(2) Bought SPV M3100 lasted one month crashed
Dragged SPV C600 back out of the cupboard
Heard about WM6 for M3100 flashed it and used for 1 [...]

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As you may know I resigned form IBM a month back and today was my last day with the company. So I made the trip over to Manchester in the car which I’d cleaned all the junk out of and met up with my UK manager and RussH.
Now I thought that was the last [...]

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I think this is good news, google can give GC all the cash it needs to grow. Fingers crossed they might start offering UK numbers. [via]
Technorati Tags: Google, GrandCentral, TechCrunch

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Testing the water to see if there’s any interest in an OpenCoffee Club in Chester (UK).
Technorati Tags: opencoffee

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I managed to pick up an invite to Dopplr via contacts on Jaiku (Thanks again Karen) and have managed to set up a single trip. I’m looking forward to using it in anger so to speak once I’ve got back into traveling for work.
Dopplr announced via their blog that you can now add contacts from [...]

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Texas based ISP Redmoon has implemented software that hijacks pages being visited by their customers by placing Redmoon’s own ads on these pages.

The technology is provided by NebuAD, which boasts that ISP delivered advertisements are an untapped source of revenue.

I guess this may sound worse than it actually is. It depends if the software replaces [...]

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I don’t know about you but I haven’t used a FAX in years. When I joined IBM I signed up for a eFax account but never used it. It was hard to come to terms with it at the start as my previous employment prior to University was an Architectural practice, where the FAX was [...]

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After posting about Opera Mini yesterday, this news appears on Techmeme about a power struggle within the company. It sounds as if a direction change from Opera may have caused a split in the board.

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I have to admit that Autoprofiles for S60 3rd editions devices looks pretty neat, but I’m having a debate with myself as to whether I really need it.
As you may or may not know I recently converted back to using Nokia devices, even after all the comments I made about the N70 when I [...]

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I got an invite via email to join a 2000 user group testing the new mNotes 5 app from Commontime. Now I have a lot of respect for Commontime and have used their products for the past 3 or 4 years without any real problems. But the new V5 version allows you to receive all [...]

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